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Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Half of a house.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.